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Hungarian (hu)
Szeged Treebank (SzTB)
Versions
- Szeged Treebank 1.0 (shallow parse)
- Szeged Treebank 2.0 (full parse)
- CoNLL 2007 (based on SzTB 2.0)
Obtaining and License
The Szeged Treebank is available for research free of charge, provided the user signs the license agreement first. The website uses JavaScript to manage content, which makes it difficult to directly link to relevant sections. Click on “downloads” (letöltések) to get the list of downloadable corpora and links to their descriptions (e.g. Szeged Treebank 2.0). To obtain the treebank, one is supposed to complete the license form, print it, sign it and fax it to +36-62-546397 or mail it to Vincze Veronika, Árpád tér 2, H-6720 Szeged. You will be given a user ID and password needed to download the data. There are links to Microsoft Word documents with the license agreement but they do not work for me. Ask Veronika Vincze how to proceed (vinczev (at) inf (dot) u-szeged (dot) hu).
Republication of the CoNLL 2007 version in the LDC is planned but it has not happened yet.
The CoNLL 2007 license in short:
- non-profit education and research purposes
- no redistribution
- no modification
- cite the principal publication (see below) in publications
SzTB was created by members of the Human Language Technology Group (Nyelvtechnológiai Csoport), Department of Informatics (Informatikai Tanszékcsoport), University of Szeged (Szegedi Tudományegyetem), Árpád tér 2, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary. Conversion from constituents to dependencies for the CoNLL 2007 shared task was done by Zoltán Alexin.
References
- Website
- http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/projectdirs/hlt/hu/Treebank/treebank2.html (on-line browsing using a Java applet)
- Data
- no separate citation
- Principal publications
- Dóra Csendes, János Csirik, Tibor Gyimóthy, András Kocsor: The Szeged Treebank In: Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner, Tomáš Pavelka (eds.): Text, Speech and Dialogue. 8th International Conference, TSD 2005, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 12-15, 2005. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3658/2005, pp. 123-131, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany, 2005. ISSN 0302-9743, ISBN 978-3-540-28789-6.
- Documentation
- The
doc/README
file in the CoNLL 2007 data distribution contains a quick guide to part of speech tags. There are also several PDF documents with detailed documentation of the annotation. - A lot of useful information on SzTB 2.0 (original, not CoNLL version), including morphosyntax, can be found at the abovementioned website.
Domain
Mixed:
- Fiction
- Short essays by 14 to 16 year-old students
- Newspapers (Népszabadság, Népszava, Magyar Hírlap, HVG)
- Texts related to computer science
- Legal texts
- Economic and financial short news
Size
According to their website, SzTB 2.0 contains 1.2 million words plus 250 thousand punctuation tokens in 82000 sentences. Only a fragment was converted to dependencies in the CoNLL 2007 version: 139,143 tokens in 6424 sentences, yielding 21.66 tokens per sentence on average (131,799 tokens / 6034 sentences training, 7344 tokens / 390 sentences test).
Inside
The original Szeged Treebank is a phrase-based treebank and it is distributed in XML-based, TEI-compliant format. The CoNLL 2007 version is dependency-based (i.e. the head of each phrase was identified), distributed in the CoNLL 2006/2007 format.
Morphological annotation includes lemmas. Morphosyntactic tags were probably disambiguated manually. The tagset used in SzTB seems to be same or similar to Multext-East. In the CoNLL version, tags were decomposed into CPOS column, POS column and the list of feature-value pairs in the FEAT column.
Personal names have been collapsed into one token, using underscore as the joining character (e.g. Torgyán_József).
Sample
The first sentence of the CoNLL 2007 training data:
1 | Az | az | T | Tf | def=yes | 4 | DET | _ | _ |
2 | elmúlt | elmúlt | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 4 | ATT | _ | _ |
3 | nyolc | nyolc | M | Mc | n=singular|case=nominative | 4 | ATT | _ | _ |
4 | hónapban | hónap | N | Nc | n=singular|case=inessive|proper=no | 16 | INE | _ | _ |
5 | , | _ | WPUNCT | WPUNCT | _ | 16 | PUNCT | _ | _ |
6 | amelyből | amely | P | Pr | p=3rd|n=singular|case=elative | 11 | ELA | _ | _ |
7 | összesen | összesen | R | Rx | _ | 8 | ADV | _ | _ |
8 | hatot | hat | M | Mc | n=singular|case=accusative | 11 | OBJ | _ | _ |
9 | kényszerűségből | kényszerűség | N | Nc | n=singular|case=elative|proper=no | 11 | ELA | _ | _ |
10 | szabadságon | szabadság | N | Nc | n=singular|case=superessive|proper=no | 11 | SUP | _ | _ |
11 | töltött | tölt | V | Vm | mood=indicative|t=past|p=3rd|n=singular|def=no | 16 | ATT | _ | _ |
12 | a | a | T | Tf | def=yes | 14 | DET | _ | _ |
13 | parlamenti | parlamenti | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 14 | ATT | _ | _ |
14 | ellenzék | ellenzék | N | Nc | n=singular|case=nominative|proper=no | 11 | SUBJ | _ | _ |
15 | , | _ | WPUNCT | WPUNCT | _ | 16 | PUNCT | _ | _ |
16 | megváltozott | megváltozik | V | Vm | mood=indicative|t=past|p=3rd|n=singular|def=no | 0 | ROOT | _ | _ |
17 | itthon | itthon | R | Rx | _ | 16 | LOCY | _ | _ |
18 | a | a | T | Tf | def=yes | 19 | DET | _ | _ |
19 | hatalommegosztás | hatalommegosztás | N | Nc | n=singular|case=nominative|proper=no | 22 | ATT | _ | _ |
20 | 1990-ben | 1990 | M | Mc | n=singular|case=inessive | 21 | ATT | _ | _ |
21 | kialakított | kialakított | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 22 | ATT | _ | _ |
22 | rendszere | rendszer | N | Nc | n=singular|case=nominative|proper=no|pperson=3rd|pnumber=singular | 16 | SUBJ | _ | _ |
23 | : | _ | WPUNCT | WPUNCT | _ | 16 | PUNCT | _ | _ |
24 | az | az | T | Tf | def=yes | 26 | DET | _ | _ |
25 | e | e | P | Pd | p=3rd|n=singular|case=nominative | 26 | ATT | _ | _ |
26 | héten | hét | N | Nc | n=singular|case=superessive|proper=no | 28 | ATT | _ | _ |
27 | audienciát | audiencia | N | Nc | n=singular|case=accusative|proper=no | 28 | ATT | _ | _ |
28 | tartó | tartó | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 29 | ATT | _ | _ |
29 | kormányfő | kormányfő | N | Nc | n=singular|case=nominative|proper=no | 31 | SUBJ | _ | _ |
30 | gyakorlatilag | gyakorlati | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=essive | 31 | ADV | _ | _ |
31 | kivonta | kivon | V | Vm | mood=indicative|t=past|p=3rd|n=singular|def=yes | 16 | CP | _ | _ |
32 | magát | maga | P | Px | p=3rd|n=singular|case=accusative | 31 | OBJ | _ | _ |
33 | az | az | T | Tf | def=yes | 34 | DET | _ | _ |
34 | Országgyűlés | Országgyűlés | N | Np | n=singular|case=nominative|proper=yes | 35 | ATT | _ | _ |
35 | ellenőrzése | ellenőrzés | N | Nc | n=singular|case=nominative|proper=no|pperson=3rd|pnumber=singular | 36 | ATT | _ | _ |
36 | alól | alól | S | St | _ | 31 | PP | _ | _ |
37 | . | _ | SPUNCT | SPUNCT | _ | 16 | PUNCT | _ | _ |
The first sentence of the CoNLL 2007 test data:
1 | A | a | T | Tf | def=yes | 2 | DET | _ | _ |
2 | bankokkal | bank | N | Nc | n=plural|case=instrumental|proper=no | 4 | INS | _ | _ |
3 | kell | kell | V | Vm | mood=indicative|t=present|p=3rd|n=singular|def=no | 0 | ROOT | _ | _ |
4 | egyezkedniük | egyezkedik | V | Vm | mood=infinitive|t=present|p=3rd|n=plural | 3 | INF | _ | _ |
5 | azoknak | az | P | Pd | p=3rd|n=plural|case=dative | 8 | ATT | _ | _ |
6 | a | a | T | Tf | def=yes | 8 | DET | _ | _ |
7 | mezőgazdasági | mezőgazdasági | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 8 | ATT | _ | _ |
8 | termelőknek | termelő | N | Nc | n=plural|case=dative|proper=no | 4 | DAT | _ | _ |
9 | , | _ | WPUNCT | WPUNCT | _ | 3 | PUNCT | _ | _ |
10 | akik | aki | P | Pr | p=3rd|n=plural|case=nominative | 21 | SUBJ | _ | _ |
11 | egy | egy | T | Ti | def=no | 19 | DET | _ | _ |
12 | , | _ | WPUNCT | WPUNCT | _ | 19 | PUNCT | _ | _ |
13 | a | a | T | Tf | def=yes | 15 | DET | _ | _ |
14 | múlt | múlt | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 15 | ATT | _ | _ |
15 | héten | hét | N | Nc | n=singular|case=superessive|proper=no | 16 | ATT | _ | _ |
16 | megjelent | megjelent | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 19 | ATT | _ | _ |
17 | földművelésügyi | földművelésügyi | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 18 | ATT | _ | _ |
18 | minisztériumi | minisztériumi | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 19 | ATT | _ | _ |
19 | rendelet | rendelet | N | Nc | n=singular|case=nominative|proper=no | 20 | ATT | _ | _ |
20 | alapján | alap | N | Nc | n=singular|case=superessive|proper=no|pperson=3rd|pnumber=singular | 21 | SUP | _ | _ |
21 | kérik | kér | V | Vm | mood=indicative|t=present|p=3rd|n=plural|def=yes | 5 | ATT | _ | _ |
22 | ősszel | ősszel | R | Rx | _ | 23 | ADV | _ | _ |
23 | lejáró | lejáró | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 27 | ATT | _ | _ |
24 | , | _ | WPUNCT | WPUNCT | _ | 27 | PUNCT | _ | _ |
25 | éven | év | N | Nc | n=singular|case=superessive|proper=no | 26 | ATT | _ | _ |
26 | belüli | belüli | A | Af | deg=positive|n=singular|case=nominative | 27 | ATT | _ | _ |
27 | hiteleik | hitel | N | Nc | n=plural|case=nominative|proper=no|pperson=3rd|pnumber=plural | 28 | ATT | _ | _ |
28 | átütemezését | átütemezés | N | Nc | n=singular|case=accusative|proper=no|pperson=3rd|pnumber=singular | 21 | OBJ | _ | _ |
29 | . | _ | SPUNCT | SPUNCT | _ | 3 | PUNCT | _ | _ |
Parsing
SzTB is a mildly nonprojective treebank. 4032 of the 139,143 tokens of the CoNLL 2007 version are attached nonprojectively (2.9%).
The results of the CoNLL 2007 shared task are available online. They have been published in (Nivre et al., 2007). The evaluation procedure was changed to include punctuation tokens. These are the best results for Hungarian:
Parser (Authors) | LAS | UAS |
---|---|---|
Malt (Nilsson et al.) | 80.27 | 83.55 |
Sagae | 79.53 | 83.51 |
Nakagawa | 76.74 | 82.49 |
Titov et al. | 77.94 | 82.18 |
The two Malt parser results of 2007 (single malt and blended) are described in (Hall et al., 2007) and the details about the parser configuration are described here.